F44.6 Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Conversion disorder with anesthesia or sensory loss
• Conversion disorder with special sensory symptoms
• Dissociative anesthesia and sensory loss
• Psychogenic deafness

Applies from F44 Dissociative and conversion disorders

Includes

• conversion hysteria
• conversion reaction
• hysteria
• hysterical psychosis

Excludes2 (not included here)

• malingering [conscious simulation] (Z76.5)

Risk adjustment (HCC)

• RxHCC V08: HCC 133 — Anxiety and Other Psychiatric Disorders

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 880 in MDC 19.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 300.11 Conversion disorder (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to F44.6

Back-references to F44.6

• Type 1 Excludes: H90.5 Unspecified sensorineural hearing loss ("psychogenic deafness (F44.6)")
• Type 1 Excludes: H91 Other and unspecified hearing loss ("psychogenic deafness (F44.6)")
• Type 1 Excludes: R20 Disturbances of skin sensation ("dissociative anesthesia and sensory loss (F44.6)")

Back-references to F44

• Type 2 Excludes: F45 Somatoform disorders ("dissociative and conversion disorders (F44.-)")
• Type 2 Excludes: F93.0 Separation anxiety disorder of childhood ("nonpsychotic mental disorders (F40-F48)")
• Type 1 Excludes: R41 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness ("dissociative [conversion] disorders (F44.-)")

Diagnosis Index entries for F44.6

• Amaurosis (acquired) (congenital) › hysterical
• Amblyopia (congenital) (ex anopsia) (partial) (suppression) › hysterical
• Anesthesia, anesthetic › dissociative
• Anesthesia, anesthetic › functional (hysterical)
• Anesthesia, anesthetic › hysterical
• Anosmia › hysterical
• Asthenopia › hysterical
• Asthenopia › psychogenic
• Blindness (acquired) (congenital) (both eyes) › emotional (hysterical)
• Blindness (acquired) (congenital) (both eyes) › hysterical
• Deafmutism (acquired) (congenital) NEC › hysterical
• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) › emotional (hysterical)
• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) › functional (hysterical)
• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) › hysterical
• Deafness (acquired) (complete) (hereditary) (partial) › psychogenic (hysterical)
• Disorder (of) › conversion (functional neurological symptom disorder) › with › anesthesia or sensory loss
• Disorder (of) › conversion (functional neurological symptom disorder) › with › special sensory symptoms
• Disorder (of) › dissociative › affecting › sensation
• Disturbance (s) › sensation (cold) (heat) (localization) (tactile discrimination) (texture) (vibratory) NEC › hysterical
• Disturbance (s) › temperature › sense › hysterical
• Dysesthesia › hysterical
• Loss (of) › sensory › dissociative
• Vision, visual › blurred, blurring › hysterical
• Vision, visual › disturbance › hysterical

Nearby codes

• F44.0 Dissociative amnesia
• F44.1 Dissociative fugue
• F44.2 Dissociative stupor
• F44.4 Conversion disorder with motor symptom or deficit
• F44.5 Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
• F44.6 Conversion disorder with sensory symptom or deficit (this code)
• F44.7 Conversion disorder with mixed symptom presentation
• F44.8 Other dissociative and conversion disorders
• F44.81 Dissociative identity disorder
• F44.89 Other dissociative and conversion disorders
• F44.9 Dissociative and conversion disorder, unspecified